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Combining both the fiction and nonfiction of one of the most unique contemporary science fiction writers, a collection offers a rare look into his mind as an author and mathematician. By the Philip K. Dick award-winning author of Mathematicians in Love. Original.

Cobb Anderson ha creato i "bopper", robot senzienti che hanno finito per controllare i loro padroni umani. Ormai vecchio e alcolizzato, aspetta solo di morire, mentre i bopper più evoluti minacciano di assorbire quelli meno sofisticati - e, perché no, anche gli umani - in una gigantesca coscienza collettiva. Alcuni bopper, però, non sono troppo entusiasti dell''idea, e scatenano una rivolta robotica sulla Luna (dove vivono i bopper). Nel frattempo, Ralph Numbers, il bopper che il suo creatore aveva pensato come il primo gradino per l''evoluzione di una nuova specie, vuole donare l''immortalità ad Anderson...

«Dotato di cultura enciclopedica, Rucker spazia dal celebre racconto ottocentesco di Edwin Abbott “Flatlandia” a “La storia di Plattner” di H.G. Wells; da opere di misconosciuti matematici otto-novecenteschi agli illustri John Wheeler e Kip Thorne, fino ai romanzi di fantascienza e alle storie di Borges, per chiarire anche al lettore più profano che cosa accadrebbe se lo spazio avesse due sole dimensioni oppure quattro invece di tre, se esseri bi- o quadridimensionali apparissero nel nostro mondo tridimensionale o se, viceversa, uno di noi si facesse una passeggiatina nella quarta dimensione. Simultaneamente Rucker ci spiega la natura dello spazio e quella del tempo e come essi potrebbero mutare nei modi più svariati. Nella sua scorribanda spaziotemporale ce n’è per tutti i gusti, dai buchi neri a Lewis Carroll con il suo “Alice nel paese delle meraviglie”, senza dimenticare una capatina (ma umoristica) nel mondo della parapsicologia e della metafisica». «Le Scienze»

Writing notes for Rudy Ruck''s novel, "Juicy Ghosts." A book-length volume with 25 grayscale illustrations.

Da otto anni il presidente degli Stati Uniti è Ross Treadle, un uomo pericolosamente incompetente, sostenuto da finanziatori potenti, e altrettanto pericolosi, appartenenti al Top Party e al Citadel Club. A contrastarlo un movimento non ufficiale di opposizione, i freal, capitanati dallo scienziato pazzo Gee Willikers. Telepatia, immortalità e rivoluzione, nel caos delle elezioni presidenziali americane: il romanzo più cyberpunk di Rucker, un''opera fondamentale per i nostri tempi.

"Return to the Hollow Earth" is Rucker''s rollicking sequel to "The Hollow Earth." Our young hero Mason and his wife Seela embark on a return voyage to the Hollow Earth with Edgar Allan Poe, traversing a great maelstrom at the North Pole. And when they return to the surface, they''re in Santa Cruz, California-in the year 2018.

Welcome to Creature Feature, a collection of terrifying tales that will make your skin crawl and your heart race. From miniature monsters to alien parasites, to the most feared monster of the 20th century, these stories will leave you trembling with fear. Storm Philip Fracassi''s dungeon to cross swords with a terrifying creature in "Ergamul," get infested by Brian Evenson''s alien parasites in "The Nichols Defense," and meet the most feared monster of the 20th century in Rudy Rucker''s classic "The Third Bomb." And that''s not all-get eaten alive by Evan J. Peterson in "The Parachute Job," hunt alien prey in S.G. Murphy''s "Land Of The Blind," and binge Channel 666 in Christopher Farnsworth''s "Where The Dead People Live." Plus, don''t miss the spine-tingling poem "The Chapel of the Dormition" by Elizabeth Rayne. So brace yourself for a journey into the unknown, where the monsters are real and the terror is palpable. Creature Feature will leave you screaming for more!

What is "transrealism"? Your usual life, only it''s an SF novel! The Secret of Life: A 60s college student learns he''s a saucer alien. White Light: A hipster math professor travels to the afterworld. Saucer Wisdom: A cult author tries to write about alien abductions. Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. -William Gibson Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in SF today-Charles Stross

It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn''t so easy to stop them. Most of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable transformation, where all the things look the same but all the people are different (they''re able to read each others'' minds, for starters). Travel to and from other nearby worlds in the quantum universe is possible, so now our world is visited by giant humanoids from another quantum universe, and some of them mean to tidy up the mess we''ve made. Or maybe just run things. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Inleiding in het gebied van de vierde dimensie.

Imaginez que vous rencontriez le Maître de l''espace et du temps ? Incroyable... surtout quand ledit Maître n''est autre que votre vieux pote Harry, un inventeur un peu tordu dont le " blonzeur " (c''est le nom de l''invention) lui permet de modifier la réalité à sa guise en modifiant la physique même de notre univers. Une fois blonzé, on peut voir se réaliser tous ses vœux : devenir beau et riche, voler. On peut aussi supprimer la faim dans le monde (à coups d''arbre à côtelettes et de pommier à beignets). Mais comme dans tout conte, il y a une morale, et à force de trop jouer avec la constante de Planck et les gluons on risque bien de se retrouver dans la m...

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